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shelving, unpacking the 150 boxes of books, memory care facility on Old Barnstable Road.
<br /> documents and artifacts,reviewing and organizing the According to county historical preservation guidelines,
<br /> collections,and updating the catalog database. Bridges by EPOCH at Mashpee was requested to make
<br /> a donation to a Historical Commission preservation
<br /> Landscaping continues around the One-Room project. Approval was granted in the spring, and site
<br /> Schoolhouse,including a pathway with bordering student- preparation and construction began during summer
<br /> designed gardens and redesign of the Veterans Garden. 2014. The Historical Commission gratefully looks
<br /> forward to a generous donation from this valuable and
<br /> In December 2013, Commissioner Rosemary needed healthcare resource in 2015, following its
<br /> Bums Love learned her proposal to publish a History of opening. These funds will be applied to publication
<br /> Mashpee,expanding her 125th Anniversary Pictorial expenses of our new book.
<br /> History Mashpee 1870-1995 (1995), was approved by
<br /> the Community Preservation Committee. Plans to Frank Lord, Commissioner and Schoolmaster,
<br /> collect additional photos and expand the text began reported that the South Mashpee One-Room
<br /> immediately. When the Historical Commission Schoolhouse, which was built in 1831 and educated
<br /> reopened on May 27,2014,Rosemary and Senior Clerk Wampanoag children for 70 years, closed in mid-
<br /> Ann Graham began intense work to expand text and October after another busy year. Between May 15 and
<br /> historical photograph collections and to digitize June 20, each of the Quashnet School third grade
<br /> photographs, artwork, and maps for inclusion in this classes visited the school. Students had the opportunity
<br /> new volume. Barbara Besse Nichols provided to learn about Mashpee's fascinating Wampanoag
<br /> scrapbooks with pictures of her family homestead and history and experience what a one-room school day
<br /> farm on Mashpee Lake,previously belonging to Nathan was like in 1850. They also toured the nearby Mashpee
<br /> and Patience Jones Bourne,their descendants Isaac and Wampanoag Indian Museum to learn about
<br /> Edwin Jones and Lillian Jones Besse. Bill McKay Wampanoag culture.
<br /> provided digital photographs of the Mashpee River and,
<br /> in the fall, Ed DeFoe photographed school buildings, We held our annual open house on May 26,2014
<br /> the Meeting House and herring runs,rivers and bays. and began scheduling public tours. We had visitors
<br /> from as far west as California and as far east as The
<br /> During October, Charles Collins of New Netherlands. By the end of the season, 76 adults and
<br /> Hampshire,grandson of Charlie Collins who lived on 168 children had visited the schoolhouse. Tours are
<br /> Collins Lane and ran a small store in the homestead and free and donations are gratefully accepted. The
<br /> barn on the comer of Route 130 and Great Neck Road in schoolhouse will reopen on Memorial Day 2015 and
<br /> the early 1900's, visited the Archives with his son and every Thursday from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. To schedule a
<br /> recounted personal memories of his grandfather, the tour at other times, contact the Schoolmaster, Frank
<br /> store and bam, and the Collins lot. In December, Lord,at fjlord@msn.com.
<br /> descendants of Baptist Pastor Harry McMillan
<br /> contributed scrapbook photos from the early 1900's of In June, Frank arranged an invitation from
<br /> Parsonage, Snake Pond Road and Mashpee Lake. Ramona Peters,archivist and Native American Graves
<br /> Commissioner and retired firefighter Gordon Peters Protection and Repatriation Act(NAGPRA)officer of
<br /> shared many photos of fire department trucks and the Mashpee Wampanoag Tribe, to visit her newly
<br /> equipment acquired during the 1950s. On May 27,2014, opened Archives facility in the Mashpee Wampanoag
<br /> Commissioners met with Rock Village Publishing, a Community and Government Center, to view the
<br /> local historical publisher, to establish a publication growing collections and learn about the archives
<br /> schedule and procedures. Ann and Rosemary spent the equipment and tools, including high density rolling
<br /> rest of the year identifying and scanning selected photos, storage,secure file cabinets,scanning and photographic
<br /> and revising the text and figure captions. The hope is to equipment to digitize photographs, documents, slides
<br /> coordinate publication of this new volume with re- and microfilm, creating digital files for on-line
<br /> opening of the renovated Archives building. viewing, thereby minimizing handling of original
<br /> materials,and dedicated database software to catalog,
<br /> In late 2013, the Historical Commission was describe and locate historic artifacts in the archives,and
<br /> contacted by lawyers for"Bridges at Mashpee"seeking web software to display tribal documents. All this
<br /> approval from the Cape Cod Commission and the technology should be considered for use in the
<br /> Mashpee Planning Board to construct an assisted renovated Town Archives facility.
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